See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it
We are hitting 9 8 p a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1 a litre. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:
This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certain day campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea has come up with a plan that can really work.
Please read it and join in!
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the market place not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. Here's the idea:
For the rest of this year DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP.
If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact we need to reach literally millions of Esso and BP petrol buyers. It's really simple to do!!
Now, don't wimp out on me at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it... ..
THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (And not buy at ESSO/BP) How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8days!!! Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.
PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE
RANGE
It's easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e. boycott BP and Esso
Just more spam to delete.
Petrol is not ever going to come down by more than a few pennies. GET USED TO IT. If by some miracle the petrol companies were able to drop the price by 10p the Government would increase the tax by 12p.
The only way out is to get a bicycle. :'(
The really bad news is the price is artificially low at the moment because of the weak dollar. OH DEAR.
It's not really the price of petrol that is the issue here in the UK - its the TAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nowhere else in the world is taxed on fuel the way we are.
I can't see it being the oil companies fault. Fuel is taxed twice in this country one is fuel duty tax which in 2006 was 47.1p a litre then Vat is also added at 17.5%.Not sure of the exact figures now but it used to be that the actual cost of a litre of unleaded was 30p a litre before tax was added.
On a website it said" In the 2004â€"05 fiscal year, fuel duty alone generated approximately £23.5 billion and this does not include the VAT raised on the fuel sold. In the 2005-06 fiscal year only £21 billion will be spent by government on transport as a whole. So, fuel taxation not only pays for the upkeep of our roads but it also helps to pay for the other things that government spends our money on".
What really annoys me is that the government still only alllows a fuel allowance of 40 p per mile for those who have to pay for their petrol for their work I have to do 100 + miles a day on average :(
but do like the idea of not using the 'Big Boys'
:)
We are taxed on this that and every bloody thing. >:( What i wont to know is ? where does all this tax money end up. ??? It does not seem to ploughed back to the public. :(
This was sent round to all the email users in our company a few weeks ago. The bloke who did it was fired.
It's nowt bu spam.
:) ok
Nonetheless I hope no-one minds a quick rant....
Quote from: froglegs on October 30, 2007, 12:01:21
We are taxed on this that and every bloody thing. >:( What i wont to know is ? where does all this tax money end up. ??? It does not seem to ploughed back to the public. :(
It does get ploughed back to some of the public: around one in four is now on the government payroll, so I don't think it's too hard to see where quite a lot of the money goes. The question for me is how many of them are making our lives better. (Some e.g. doctors, nurses teachers are obvious but I do tend to get a bit suspicious when a job title has 'co-ordinator' in it - no offence intended to any allotmenteers in that position :))
I think things would run better if fewer MP's (especially ministers) were professional politicians and more had experience of the real world uncushioned by expense allowances and ludicrously good pensions
QuoteIt does get ploughed back to some of the public: around one in four is now on the government payroll, so I don't think it's too hard to see where quite a lot of the money goes.
Are you including the wilfully unemployed in this? Like one I know who hasn't worked for ten years, but he does work hard. Applying for jobs he knows he's not qualified to do.
Good idea Rosiemcposie,
However most of the price of fuel is government duty and V.A.T. and they could`nt care less. >:( >:( >:(.
Believe me if the price at the pumps goes up tp £2 per litre there will be no change - just a lot of moaning.
It's no good leaving Esso and BP out, your money will simply go into other pockets and these suppliers will probably think they are on to a good thing and will so increase their own prices.
The fault lies with the Stock Exchanges of the world. It's the middlemen who are having a field day - they look for every excuse to boost prices, even a broken rope in the North Sea can lead to a price increase!!
Stop dealing with commodities on the SEs; that's the only way we are going to get properly priced petrol, heating oil, aluminium, coffee, sugar, energy of all sorts, etc., shareholders have never had it so good - although they also complain about the prices whilst laughing up their sleeves.
I wonder if this fire is going to affect things
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7070995.stm
update on beep
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7089933.stm
i paid 97.9 pl for petrol this week which i though was great :)
£1.02 - £1.07 here for diesel.
You have missed one major bad point on this bad thing for boycotting a main supplier. Eventually they may close some garages and hand a greater monopoly to the remaining competitors to increase price more due to less competition in the market.